Bøger i Antipode Book Series serien

Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia known locally as the trampoline of death to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means.

The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization.

* This book provides the first intensive study focusing on building cleaners and their global experiences. * Brings together an international group of scholars and experts to investigate different national contexts and examples. * Draws out important commonalities and highlights significant differences in these experiences.

In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world and introduce a pluralistic agenda for critical environmental justice research.

Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation s role as a central driver of global capitalism.

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.

This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci s work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory.

This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci s work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory.

This volume explores issues central to the civil uprisings that swept the world in 2011. It offers profound analysis of the relationship between democracy and neoliberalism in an urban context, explaining how democracy can help us evolve socially, and how it can be used to revivify the political left.

This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. * Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues.

Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.

An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts - showing how his research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond. .

The online version of Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 is free to download here. Alternatively, print copies can be purchased for just GB£7 / US$10 here.******************************************************************************** To celebrate Antipode's 50th anniversary, we've brought together 50 short keyword essays by a range of scholars at varying career stages who all, in some way, have some kind of affinity with Antipode's radical geographical project.* The entries in this volume are diverse, eclectic, and to an extent random, however they all speak to our discipline's past, present and future in exciting and suggestive ways* Contributors have taken unusual or novel terms, concepts or sets of ideas important to their research, and their essays discuss them in relation to radical and critical geography's histories, current condition and possible future directions* This fractal, playful and provocative intervention in the field stands as a fitting testimony to the role that Antipode has played in the generation of radical geographical engagement with the world

What does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists into conversation to propose an approach to the urban that recognises social reproduction both as foundational to urban transformations and as a methodological entry-point for urban studies.* Offers an approach feminist urban theory that remains intentionally cautious of universal uses of social reproduction theory, instead focusing analytical attention on historical contingency and social difference* Eleven chapters that collectively address distinct elements of the contemporary crisis in social reproduction and the urban through the lenses of infrastructure and subjectivity formation as well as through feminist efforts to decolonize urban knowledge production* Deepens understandings of how people shape and reshape the spatial forms of their everyday lives, furthering understandings of the 'infinite variety' of the urban* Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars within urban studies, human geography, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology

Critical urban theory and postcolonial approaches are brought together in this compelling book to explore the relationship between colonial legacies, urbanization, and global capitalism in southern Mexico.* Investigates the boom-to-bust story of maquiladoras in the state of Yucatán to shed light on how the built environment was shaped by discourse, imaginaries, and everyday practices* Examines the infrastructure constructed to support the maquiladora project and traces the attempts of the state to portray Yucatán as an exotic and business-friendly maquiladora paradise* Reveals how these practices stand in contrast to the livelihood strategies and life stories of maquiladora workers and residents* Draws on a wide range of sources to illustrate a central tension in capitalism: its tendency to homogenize while thriving in differentiation* Provides important insights into an understudied location and urges us to understand urbanization in the global South in new ways

New interest in labour and union internationalism has developed over the last 10-15 years. This collection, co-edited by scholars from an older and younger generation, is a very original attempt to grapple with the challenges of globalisation for labor. The collection includes contributions from academics and activists based in the North and South.

Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit http://www. bioeconomies.

Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.

As critical social scientists are apt to say, following Marx, the point of our work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it. The Point is to Change it brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them.

Places of Possibility reveals how community land ownership can lead to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than the privatization espoused by neoliberalism. Drawing on comprehensive qualitative research in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, environmental geography specialist A. Fiona D.

Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so--called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. * Allows the voices of poorly--educated young men to be heard. * Looks at how the labour market is changing.

Life's Work is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions.

* Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of critical urban studies, radical geography and state theory. * Analyses the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring. * Synthesises a variety of new theoretical approaches to key issues in contemporary urban studies.

This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation and new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation. * This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation. * Presents new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation. * Draws on new, original research.

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual placement . It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking productiveness have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity.

Critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. This title considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues. It also contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.